Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt's campaign is defending his handling of a vote on the state pardons board after an audio recording published this week suggests he used his state staff for political purposes.
The Reno Gazette-Journal reported Friday on the November 21 recording a fellow airline passenger made of Laxalt.
It captured the Republican gubernatorial candidate suggesting staffers in the attorney general's office help beat back a news story criticizing him for casting the lone dissenting vote in the pardon of a man found to be wrongfully convicted of murder.